🍁Nine Ancient Obelisks

Nodding in agreement with his companion, Genza summarizes:
- Anything can happen, - he thought to himself, not without a pleasant surprise, that she can actually do something when she wants to; if only she smiled more often, and she probably wouldn't have so much negative baggage.

Already sitting on the bus, he fell silent for a while, concentrating on writing in his notebooks. First, he set a new life goal for himself in his travel guide: "to hunt down the black dog" - he even underlined this entry with two lines. After thinking, he drew an arrow from this motto: "find it (wait for the meeting?)", and, wrinkling his face, reluctantly added a second one: "get in shape a little, acquire weapons".

Then, skillfully twirling a pencil on his fingers, as if it were a casino chip, he opened his Tungus notebook, feeling an unexpectedly pleasant scent from the untouched paper. But it remained so for a very short time, because the first bold entry on it was:

- ASUGUH. The oldest and greatest kingdom in the world, the pearl of Anuzish.
- Welfern. An upstart country, stirring up something unclear, to whose challenge we will be obliged to respond.
- Tung. A country of fun guys in strange masks.
- Calcite. A country of shifting sands and gloomy rich people.
- Exia. A country - here he realized that he knew nothing about it, and was going to leave the entry blank, but decided not to give up halfway and added - beyond the Farsik Gates.

Since the iron is still hot, he moved on to another section:
- SHIRI. Luck, money, ears, and the pleasures of life.
- Ako. I don't know what, but it's doing something, and probably something good, that inspired the centaur to great deeds.
- The Sea Queen (unfortunately, he couldn't remember her name correctly). She wants to drown everyone and strangle them with her tentacles.

Cheerfully closing his notes, Genza notices that they have already arrived.

A little later, the trio boards an autodilijance and arrives in Sizka by 7:30 PM.

- It took a long time to get here, - the first cigarette of the day is a sweet relief to his lungs, awakening his brain, tired from the monotonous journey. - But I congratulate you, ladies and gentlemen, we are finally here.
He tried to survey the majestic capital, but from this location, in such twilight, he found it difficult.
- All the business is for tomorrow. I just need to get to the room and not get lost in these streets, - he nods to his neighbor. - So, what have you decided, where will you wreak havoc and on whom?